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Tensions Chine-USA : le dernier rapport du CFR jette de l’huile sur le feu

Une nouvelle étude du Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) sur la politique américaine vis-à-vis de Taïwan est à la fois périlleuse et fallacieuse. Source : Responsible Statecrafft, Michael D. Swaine, Jake Werner, James ParkTraduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises Compte tenu du nombre de ses membres et de sa direction prestigieuse, le Council on […]

How Pacific Nations Are Playing US-China Rivalry to Their Advantage

Today’s global geopolitics is more about great power competition than any other thing. It is evident from the ongoing military conflict in Eastern Europe, and it is evident from the ways in which the US has been trying to build a global coalition against China for the past many years now. So far, Washington has […]

Afghanistan two years on

The West is seeking to radicalize and break up the Taliban. It is now two years since the USA withdrew its troops from Afghanistan. In August 2021 the world looked on as the 20-year US campaign ground to an end. What has changed since the US exit from the country? As for the Americans themselves, […]
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US interests in Mongolia: the official myth and the secret reality

In the official statements by senior representatives of the United States Mongolia is generally presented as a friendly nation and US partner. Ever since 1991, when US Secretary of State James A. Baker described the US as “Mongolia’s third neighbor”, official statements about Mongolia have been impressively consistent and unambiguous. For example, during his 2011 […]

Guantanamo : un rapport de l’ONU demande au gouvernement américain de fermer le centre de détention

Le rapporteur spécial estime que les procédures « établissent une privation structurelle et un non-respect des droits nécessaires à une existence humaine et digne. » Source : Responsible Statecraft, Blaise MalleyTraduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises Plus de vingt ans après l’ouverture de la prison de Guantanamo Bay, les 30 détenus restants sont toujours […]

Israel on the brink of constitutional anarchy

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator Despite massive street protests since January, and international pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to throw out the bill, the judicial reform measure is now law.  It passed on a vote of 64-0 amid an opposition boycott.  The bill removes the “Reasonability Clause” from being used by the Supreme […]

On some aspects of recent overseas trips of Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India

The two recent overseas trips by Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, which took place two weeks apart between the second half of June and mid-July, is a glaring example of the rising foreign policy activity of the nation’s head of state, who is increasingly asserting himself as one of the key players in the […]

Conflict Between North and South Korea from Mid-June to Mid-July 2023 from one Rocket to the Next

The author of the previous issue of this digest writes that the usual pattern of escalation surrounding the USA and South Korean military exercises has given way to news events since the beginning of June. On June 15, 2023, in response to a large-scale South Korean and USA live-fire exercise just 25 kilometers south of […]

Would Joe Biden Blow Your Child’s Foot Off? Only If He’s Ordered To

Who can forget Princess Diana’s visit to Angola and Bosnia in 1997 to walk through areas of mines and to engage with the victims of the explosives? Just days after her untimely death, the United Nations Mine Ban Treaty was signed by 164 countries. Today, Lady Diana’s visit is still talked about in Angola. But […]
Сообщение Would Joe Biden Blow Your Child’s Foot Off? Only If He’s Ordered To появились сначала на New Eastern Outlook.